Contribuições à mudança curricular na Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia

Abstract

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CURRICULUM CHANGE AT THE FACULTY OF BAHIA MEDICINE. This work is a proposal for a dialogue based on in the focus of the experiences lived during the period of 2002 to 2006, with professors and students at the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, Federal University of Bahia and professionals of primary health care services in some municipalities of Bahia using different methodologies. The change deemed necessary to form humanistic, critical and reflective doctors, prepared for the various spaces of care, with an emphasis on primary health care and capable of solving the most prevalent in your region, is made explicit in the national curriculum guidelines for Medicine courses, published in 2001. The experiences presented point to the limits and possibilities and indicate challenges to be faced in order to build changes in medical training and management of health services; the understanding of need for change as a social process; the importance of the principles of strategic planning for the construction of interventions; commitment of the management of medical school with new training and selection processes for teachers, prioritizing the dialogue, collective spaces for reflection and policy formulation in the fields of training and its relationship with the health system; the integration of graduation with policies of specialization and postgraduate courses with the establishment of lines and groups of medical training research. The single health system, as the main field of practice of the courses, and, consequently, of the formation, needs to have this action as a priority and with this will positively interfere in the construction of the necessary changes. to substantiate these values ​​and guidelines, in this thesis four works published or submitted. In conclusion, the valorization of primary health care in the medical training and the inclusion of this level of care in the process of curricular change.